Conclusions
Today's market needs are highlighted by a greater variety of products that have to be delivered at low cost and high quality in order to be competitive. In the meantime, product life cycles are shortening, the time-to-market for new products is decreasing, and customers demand shorter lead times (the time between placement and delivery of an order), which require a better enterprise information system, such as SCM (Muckstadt et al. 2001). Well-informed operational, tactical, and strategic decisions can only be made when perfect visibility of products can be provided in the future e-business environment. Using the proposed GIC scheme for product identification and information retrieval makes it possible for precise information or services ...
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